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What The Bleep Do We Know Script

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[ Chattering, Faint ]

[ Man ] What's going on,and why am I here?

[ Explosion ]

- Where do we come from?- What do quantum physics--

- Immense quantum mechanical isotopes.- Physics of possibility.

Quantum mechanics allows--

[ Woman ]Supreme mind.



- Brain is capable of millions--- A neural net.

- Cascade of biochemical--- An emotional response--

Molecules--

The brain does not knowthe difference between...

what it sees in its environmentand what it remembers.

We are runningthe holodeck.

Whatever way we observethe world around us--

[ Woman ] So how can you continueto see the world as real...

if the self that is determining itto be real is intangible?

[ Popping ]

[ Brakes Squealing ]

[ Woman ] Are all realitiesexisting simultaneously?



Is there a possibility...

that all potentialsexist side by side?

Have you ever seen yourself through the eyesof someone else that you have become...

and looked at yourself through the eyesof the ultimate observer?

[ Man ]Who are we?

Where do we come from,what should we do...

and where are we going?

Why are we here? Well,that is the ultimate question, isn't it?

What is reality?

What I thought was unreal,now for me...

seems in some ways to be more realthan what I think to be real...

which seems now moreto be unreal.

You can't explain it, um...



and anybody who getstoo lost in try--

anybody who spends too much time

trying to explain it...

is likely to get lost foreverdown the rabbit hole of mysteriousness.

I think the more you lookat quantum physics...

the more mysteriousand wondrous it becomes.

Quantum physics...

very succinctly speaking...

is a physics of possibilities.

These are questions--

These are addressing questions, um,of how the world feels to us...

of-of whether there's a differencebetween the way the world feels to us...

and the way it really is.

Have you ever thought about

what thoughts are made of?



I think some of the thingswe're seeing with the children today...

is a sign that the culture

is in the wrong paradigm...

and not appreciatingthe power of thought.

Every age, every generationhas its built-in assumptions--

That the world is flat,or that the world is round, et cetera.

There are hundredsof hidden assumptions...

things we take for granted,

that may or may not be true.

Of course, in the vast majority of cases,historically, these things aren't true.

So presumably,if history is any guide...

much about what we take for grantedabout the world simply isn't true.

But we're locked into these preceptswithout even knowing it oftentimes.

That's a paradigm.



Modern materialism...

strips people of the needto feel responsible...

and often enough,so does religion.

But I think if you take quantum mechanicsseriously enough...

it puts the responsibilitysquarely in your lap.

And it doesn't give answersthat are clear-cut...

and comforting.

It says, yes, the world isa very big place. It's very mysterious.

Mechanism is not the answer, but I'm notgonna tell you what the answer is...

because you're old enoughto decide for yourself.

Is everyone a mystery?

Is everyone an enigma?

They most certainly are.



but we're unaware of them?

Is it possible that we're so conditionedto our daily lives...

so conditioned to the waywe create our lives...

that we buy the idea thatwe have no control at all?

We've been conditionedto believe...

that the external world is more realthan the internal world.

This new model of sciencesays just the opposite--

It says what's happening within uswill create what's happening outside of us.

There's a physical realitythat is absolutely rock-solid...

and yet... it only--

If you wanna put it this way,it only comes into existence...

when it bumps up againstsome other piece of physical reality.

That other piece may be us, and of course,



we're partial to those moments...

but it doesn'thave to be either.

You know, it could be justsome incidental rock comes flying along...

and interacts withthis fuzzy mass of stuff...

and sure enough, it provokes itinto a particular state of existence.

There were philosophers in the pastthat said, "Look, if I kick a rock...

and I hurt my toe, that's real."

"I feel that. It feels real.It's vivid.

And that meansthat it's reality.''

But it's still an experience, and it's stillthis person's perception of it being real.

Scientific experiments have shownthat if we take a person and, uh...

hook their brains up to certain PET scansor computer technology...

and ask them to look ata certain object...



and they watch,certain areas of the brain light up.

And then they've asked themto close their eyes...

and now imaginethat same object.

And when they imagine

that same object...

it produced the same areasof the brain to light up...

as if they were actuallyvisually looking at it.

So it caused scientists toback up and ask this question.

So who sees then? Does the brain see?Or do the eyes see?

And what is reality? Is realitywhat we're seeing with our brain...

or is reality whatwe're seeing with our eyes?

And the truth is is that the braindoes not know the difference...

between what it sees in its environmentand what it remembers...



because the same specificneural nets are then firing.

So then it asks the question:What is reality?

[ Woman ] We're bombardedby huge amounts of information...

and it's coming into our body,

and we're processing it--

coming in through our sense organs,and it's percolating up and up...

- and at each stepwe're eliminating information.- [Jingling ]

And finally, what is bubbling upto consciousness is...

the one that'sthe most self-serving.

[ Man ] The brain processesbillion bits of information a second...

but we're only awareof of those.

But our awareness of those bitsof information...

arejust about the environment,



our body and about time.

[ Rattles ]

[ Man ] We're living in a world whereall we see is the tip of the iceberg--

the classical tip of an immensequantum mechanical iceberg.

- Hey, wow! You got a lot of shots to develop?

- No.

Oh, bummer.Well, I'll catch you later.

[ Door Opens, Closes ]

[ Man ] If the brain is processingbillion bits of information...

and our awarenessis only on --

- [ Hits Ground ]- that means reality's happeningin the brain all the time.

It's receiving that information,and yet we haven't integrated it.

The eyes are like the lens.

But the tape that's reallyseeing is the back of the brain.



It's called the visual cortex.It's right back here.

It's like this cameraand its tape.

Did you know that the brain imprintswhat it has the ability to see?

This is important.

For example:

This camera is seeinga lot more around me...

than what is here...

because it is-- has no objectionand no judgment.

The only movie that's playingin the brain...

is what we havethe ability to see.

So is it possible our eyes,our cameras...

see more than what our brain...

has the abilityto consciously project?



[ Woman ]Well, the way our brain is wired up...

we only see whatwe believe is possible.

Um, we match patternsthat already...

uh, exist within ourselves

through conditioning.

So, a wonderful storythat I believe is true...

is that when the Indians--the Native American Indians...

on the Caribbean Islands sawColumbus's ships approaching...

they couldn't see them at all.

Because it was so...

unlike anything they had ever seen before,they couldn't see it.

[ Man ] When Columbus's armadalanded in the Caribbean...

none of the natives

were able to see the ships...



[ Man ] We always perceive somethingafter reflection in the mirror of memory.

- [ Screaming ]

- [ Gasps ]- [ Shutter Clicks ]

As far as whether or not we're just livingin a big holodeck or not...

it's a question we don't necessarilyhave a good answer to.

I think this is a big philosophical problemwe have to deal with...

in terms of what sciencecan say about our world...

because we are alwaysthe observer in science.

So we are stillalways constrained...

by what is ultimately cominginto the human brain...

that allows us to see andperceive the things we do.

So it is conceivable that all of thisreally is just a great illusion...

that we have no way of really gettingoutside of to see what is really out there.



Your brain doesn't know the differencebetween what's taking place out there...

and what's taking place in here.

There is no ""out there'' out thereindependent of what's going on in here.

You okay? I heard you scream earlier.Was it another dream?

- [ Mouths Words ]- You were an Indian...

watching Columbus's shipmaterialize out of thin air.

Wow.

And this medicine mankept hitting you.

[ Gasps ] Cool. That's--

Hey, maybe it was a past lifeor a parallel reality...

or a future life.

Get real.

Or maybe that dream was tryingto tell you the truth.



I guess it just dependson what you think is real.

Maybe you should trydifferent anxiety pills.

My pills are fine, okay?Thank you.

Well, I have to go get dressed.

Mmm. I hope youfeel better, Amanda.

[ Door Closes ]

God, Amanda.You can be such an asshole.

[ Sighs ]

[ Man ] There actually are choicesin the direction ofhow a life can go...

that are contingent uponsmall-level quantum effects...

not being washed out.

First of all, let's talkabout the subatomic world...

and then we'll talk about whatit's telling us about reality.



The first thing I wanna tell youabout the subatomic world...

is it's totally a fantasy created bymad physicists trying to figure out...

what the heck is goin' onwhen they do these little experiments.

By little experiments, I mean big energy

in little spaces in little pieces of time.

It gets pretty nuttyat that realm of things...

and so subatomic physics was inventedto try to figure that all out.

We need a new science down there,and it's called quantum physics...

and it is subject to a wholerange of debatable hypotheses...

thoughts, feelings, intuitionsas to what the heck is really going on.

Matter is not what we havelong thought it to be.

Uh-- To the scientists, matter has alwaysbeen thought of as sort of the ultimate...

in that which is staticand predictable.



Within all the atoms and molecules,all the space within them...

the particles take upan insignificant amount of the--

of the volume of an atom or molecule,the fundamental particles.

The rest of it is vacuum.

What seems to happen is that particlesappear and disappear all the time.

So where do they gowhen they're not here?

Now, that question is tricky.

I'm gonna give you two answers--Answer number one:

They go intoan alternative universe...

where the people in that universeare asking the same question...

about those particles whenthey come into our universe.

They say, "Where do they go?''

[ Chuckles ]



[ Man ] There's a great mystery calledthe mystery of the direction of time.

There's a certain sense in which the

fundamental laws of physics that we have...

don't make any interesting distinctions,say, between past and future.

Um, for example, it's a puzzle from the standpointof the fundamental laws of physics...

why we should be able to...

um, remember the past, um...

and not have the same kindof epistemic access to the future.

It's a puzzle from the standpointof these laws...

why we should think something likeby acting now...

we can affect the futurebut not the past.

These things-- that we have a different kindof epistemic access to the past and future...

that we have a different kindof control by acting now...

over the future



than we do over the past...

these things are so fundamentalto the way we experience the world...

that, um-- um--

that it seems to me,not to be curious about them is to be...

you know, three-quarters

of the way to being dead.

Wanna shoot some hoops?

Now, you don't haveto be like that.

Come on and play.

Look. He likes you.

Don't you have time fora little one-on-one?

How long has it beensince you played?

[ Chuckles ] Come on.You got the ball. Take a shot.

No, no, no, milady.Not from there. It's out-of-bounds.



You gotta be on the courtto be in play.

[ Sighs ]

Welcome to Duke Reginald'sCourt of Unending Possibilities.

[ Sighs ]

- [ Grunts ]

- Court rules-- Gotta sink the last one.

- That hurt.- It never touched you.

- Right.- And it's not solid.

This ball is mostly empty.

In fact, the universeis mostly empty.

[ Man ] We like to thinkof space as empty and matter as solid.

But in fact, there is essentially nothingto matter whatsoever.

It's completely insubstantial.

Take a look at an atom.



We think of it asa kind ofhard ball.

Then we say,"Oh, well, not really.

"It's this little tiny point of reallydense matter right at the center...

"surrounded by a kind offluffy probability cloud of electrons...

popping in and outof existence. '

But then it turns out thatthat's not even right.

Even the nucleus,which we think of as so dense...

pops in and out of existencejust as readily as the electrons do.

The most solid thing you can sayabout all this insubstantial matter...

is that it's more likea thought--

it's like a concentrated bitof information.

[ Man ] What makes up thingsare not more things...



but what makes up things areideas, concepts, information.

[ Whooshes ]

And like I said,it never touches.

[ Reginald ]Those electrons build up a charge...

and push the other electronsaway before they touch.

So nobody touches nothin'.

Come on. Put your stuff down.Nobody's gonna take it.

Like I said, this is my court.It's no problem.

[ Sighs ]

- How long has it been?- I'll be late.

It's only in conscious experiencethat it seems that we move forward in time.

In quantum theory, you can alsogo backwards in time.

[ Reginald ]You can always go back in time.



- [ Cheering ]- [ Shutter Clicking ]

[ Buzzer Buzzes ]

[ Cheering Fades ]

What's the matter?Remember, it's empty.

How do you know this shit?

I read Dr. Quantum comics. Everybody thinksit's just kid stuff, but I know it's real.

That's how I do my magicon the court.

Yeah, I always choosethe wonder boy first.

- He's got the weirding way.- Well, Dr. Quantum says everybody's got it.

Everybody's doing it.

Doing it constantly,each and every time you look.

When you ain't lookin',it's like a wave.

When you are lookin',it's like a particle.



When you are not looking,there are waves of possibility.

- [ Ball Bouncing ]- When you are looking, thereare particles of experience.

[ Man ] Aparticle,which we think of as a solid thing...

really exists ina so-called "superposition, '

a spread-out waveof possible locations...

and it's in all of thoseat once.

The instance you check on it...

it snaps intojust oneof those possible positions.

[ Man ]Quantum superposition implies that...

a particle can be in two or more placesor states simultaneously.

And this is a very bizarre concept, and oneof the hallmarks of the quantum world.

Superheroes use superposition...



with the world being potential stripsof reality until we choose.

Heroes choose what they want--

being in many places at once, experiencingmany possibilities all at once...

and then collapsing on the one.

The question is, how far downthe rabbit hole do you wanna go?

Nice shot.

[ Man ] How can a system or an object bein two or more states at the same time?

[ Man ] How can a system or an object bein two or more states at the same time?

[ Man ] It's very easy--Instead of thinking of things as things.

We all have a habit of thinking thateverything around us is already a thing...

existing without my input,without my choice.

You have to banishthat kind of thinking.

Instead,you really



have to recognize...

that even the material worldaround us--

the chairs, the tables, the rooms,the carpet-- camera included--

all of these are nothing butpossible movements of consciousness.

And I'm choosing moment to momentout of those movements...

to bring my actual experienceinto manifestation.

This is the only radical thinkingthat you need to do.

But it is so radical--It's so difficult...

because our tendency is that the worldis already out there...

independent of my experience.

It is not. Quantum physicshas been so clear about it.

Heisenberg himself,codiscoverer of quantum physics...

said atoms are not things,they're only tendencies.



So, instead of thinkingof things...

you have to thinkof possibilities.

They're all possibilitiesof consciousness.

You now can see in numerous labs

around the United States...

objects that are large enoughto be seen by the naked eye...

and they are intwo places simultaneously.

- You can actually take a photograph of that.- [ Shutter Clicks ]

Now, I suppose if you showed a photograph,they'd say, ""Oh. Great.

""Here's this nice blob of colored light,and I see there's...

""a bit of it over here and another bit--So you've got a picture of two dots.

What's the big deal?''

You say, ""Look right in the chamber.You can see it right there.''



""I see two things there.''""No, no. That's not two things--

That's one thing.It's the same thing in two places.''

I'm not sure that people'sjaw would drop about it...

because I think--

I don't think peoplereally believe it.

And I don't mean that people say, ""Oh, you'relying,'' or ""Oh, the scientists are confused.''

I-I think it is so mysterious that you

can't even understand how amazing it is.

And then, furthermore,you've seen Star Trek and whatnot.

""Beam me up, Scotty.''So it all seems sort of...

""Oh, well, what doesthat really mean?''

But you've gotta really stop andthink about what that means--

That it's the same object

and it's in two places at once.



When people tinker in the lab, and they getangry about things, and they have lunch...

and they go home

and they lead their lives...

just as though nothingutterly astounding is happening...

because that's howyou have to go about it--

And yet, there's thiscompletely amazing magic...

sitting right in frontof your eyes.

[ Man ] Quantum physics

calculates only possibilities...

but if we accept this,then the question immediately comes...

who, what, chooses amongthese possibilities...

to bring the actual eventof experience?

So we directly, immediately seethat consciousness must be involved.

The observer cannot be ignored.



[ Man ] We know what an observer doesfrom a point of view of quantum physics...

but we don't knowwho or what the observer actually is.

Doesn't mean we haven't tried to findan answer. We've looked.

We've gone inside of your head.We've gone into every orifice you have...

to find somethingcalled an observer.

And there's nobody home.There's nobody in the brain.

There's nobody in the cortical regionsof the brain.

There's nobody in the subcortical regionsor the limbic regions of the brain.

There's nobody therecalled an observer.

And yet, we all have this experienceof being something called an observer...

observing the world out there.

Is this the observer...

and which is so intricateto understanding...



the wacky, weird world...

of quantum particlesand how they react?

Is this then the observer?

[ Man ] In my modeling,the observer is the spirit...

inside the four-layer biobodysuit.

And so, it's likethe ghost in the machine.

It is the consciousnessthat's driving the vehicle...

and it is observingthe surround.

The four layers of the biobodysuithave all kinds of sensory systems...

to pick up signaturesfrom the surround.

[ Horn Honking ]

[ Dog Barking ]

[ Woman ]Aw. Good boy.



[ Chattering ]

[ Shutter Clicking ]



[ Phone Ringing, Vibrating ]

Where the hell are you?I've got a studio full of people...

but, oh, my God.!

There's no photographer.

Where, oh, wherecan she be?

Aliens?Loch Ness monster?

Or a hot date?

In Washington, D.C., the so-calledmurder capital of the world...

there was a big experimentin the summer of ...



where volunteers camefrom a hundred countries...

to collectively meditate for long periodsof time throughout the day.

It was predicted in advancethat with such a sized group...

you would have a % dropin violent crime...

as defined by the F.B.I.in Washington that summer.

Well, the chief of policewent on television saying that...

"Look. It's gonnatake two feet of snow...

to reduce crime by % inWashington, D.C. this summer.''

But by the end, the police department becamea collaborator and author of this study...

because the results in fact showed a %drop in violent crime in Washington, D.C....

which we could predicton the basis of previous studies...

that had already been doneon a smaller scale.



This leads naturallyto wonder do people--

are people affecting the worldof reality that they see?

You betcha they are.

Every single one of usaffects the reality that we see...

even if we try to hidefrom that and play victim.

We all are doin' it.

Just tell mewhere you are.

Good. But hurry,will ya, please?

- Because these modelsare giving me a headache.- Ten minutes!

- [ Sighs ]- [ Rattling ]

Oh-- [ Muttering ]

- [ Train Departing ]- [ Gasps ]

[ Woman ] Our subway exhibit comes to usfrom Japan and Mr. Masaru Emoto.



Mr. Emoto becameterribly interested...

in the molecular structureof water and what affects it.

Now, water is the most receptiveof the four elements.

Mr. Emoto thought perhaps

it would respond to nonphysical events.

So he set up a series of studies,applied mental stimuli...

and photographed it witha dark field microscope.

This first picture is a pictureof water from the Fujiwara Dam.

And this pictureis the same water...

after receiving a blessingfrom a Zen Buddhist monk.

Now in this nextseries of pictures...

Mr. Emoto printed out words,taped them to bottles of distilled water...

and left them out overnight.



This first photograph is the pictureof the pure distilled water--

just the essenceof itself.

These subsequent photographs,as you can see, are each different.

This is the"Chi of Love.''

And we move along hereto "Thank You. '

And you can see where he taped that,uh, to this bottle here.

But if you read Japanese,you already knew that. [ Chuckles ]

Now, Mr. Emoto speaks ofthe thought or intent...

being the driving forcein all of this.

The science of how that actuallyaffects the molecules is unknown...

except to the water molecules,of course.

And it's really fascinatingwhen you keep in mind...



that % of our bodiesare water.

Makes you wonder,doesn't it?

If thoughts can do thatto water...

imagine what our thoughtscan do to us.

[ Train Approaching ]

Absolutely thought alonecan completely change the body.

Most people don't affect reality

in a consistent, substantial way...

because they don'tbelieve they can.

They write an intention...

and then they erase it,because they think that's silly--

I mean-- I can't do that. And then theywrite it again, and then they erase it.

So time average,it's a very small effect.



And it really comes down to the fact thatthey believe they can't do it.

If you accept with everyrudiment of your being...

that you will walk on water,will it happen?

Yes, it will.

But you know, it's, uh--it's like positive thinking.

It's a wonderful idea,positive thinking...

but what it usually means is that I havea little smear of positive thinking...

covering a whole massof negative thinking.

So thinking positive isnot really thinking positive.

It's just disguising the negative thinkingthat we have.

When we think of things, then we makethe reality more concrete than it is...

and that's why we become stuck.

We become stuckin the sameness of reality.



Because if reality is concrete, obviously,I am insignificant. I cannot really change it.

But if reality is my possibility--possibility of consciousness itself--

then immediately comes the questionof how can I change it?

How can I make it better?

How can I make it happier?

You see how we are extendingthe image of ourselves?

In the old thinking,I cannot change anything...

because I don't haveany role at all in reality.

Reality is already there. It's materialobjects moving in their own way...

from deterministic laws...

and mathematics determineswhat they will do in a given situation.

I, the experiencer,have no role at all.

In the new view, yes,mathematics can give us something.



It gives us the possibilitiesthat all these movements can assume.

But it cannot give us the actual experiencethat I'll be having in my consciousness.

I choose that experience.

And therefore, literally,I create my own reality.

It may sound like a tremendous,bombastic claim by some New Agey...

without any understandingof physics whatsoever...

but really quantum physics

is telling us that.

[ Electronica ]

[ Woman SingingIn Foreign Language ]

[ Door Closes ]

Hey!How was the shoot?

Sucked. [ Sighs ]

- [ Continues ]- [ Stomps ]



Your boss called.He's worried about you.

[ Ends ]

Amanda, I wanna thank youfor letting me stay here.

I know I'm a bit much sometimes...

and that it's been tough after Bob and all.[ Raspberries, Laughs ]

And, um,you'vejustbeen so wonderful.

I mean, I make a mess and--

Well, I clean up afterwards,but it's not really your style.

Sometimes I thinkyou make me sane.

Me? [ Laughs ]

The day I make someone sane,they're in trouble. [ Laughs ]

Anyway, um...

I made you somethingas a thank-you gift.



Open it.

I went through your picturesand picked my favorite ones.

And it took me forever because there areso many good ones. [ Laughs ]

This--

That's for all the wonderful photosyou will be taking.

- Oh!- I've had a strange day.

Thank you.

[ Voices Overlapping, Echoing ]What is my life? Why is your life?

What is the purpose oflife?

Where am I going?What happens when I die?

- Why is there anything at all?- What is reality?

[ Man At Exhibit ]It makes you wonder, doesn't it?

If thoughts can



do that to water...


[ Water Running ]

- [ Voices Overlapping ] These--- Reality comes down to experiences.

- Is this--

- Successful--

Have you ever thought aboutwhat thoughts are made of.

Is there a substance of thought?

[ Roommate ] I guess itjust depends onwhat you think is real.

[ Reginald ] The worldbeing possible timelines of reality...

until we choose.

[ Woman ] Are all realities in thequantum field existing simultaneously?

- [ Man ] My definition of an addictionis something--- [ Voices Overlapping ]

- Something that you can't stop.- [ Man ] There are different worldsin which we live.



There's the macroscopic world that we see.There's the world of our cells.

There's the world of our atoms.There's the world of our nuclei.

These are eachtotally different worlds.

They have their own language.

They have their own mathematics.

They're notjust smaller--Each is totally different.

But they're complementary,because I am my atoms...

but I am also my cells.

I'm also mymacroscopic physiology.

It's all true.They're just different levels of truth.

The deepest level of truth uncoveredby science and by philosophy...

is the fundamental truthof unity.

At that deepest subnuclear levelof our reality...



you and I are literally one--

[ Echoing ]

one-- one-- one--

- [ Birds Twittering ]- I wake up in the morning...

and I consciously create my daythe way I want it to happen.

Now, sometimes...

because my mind is examiningall the things that I need to get done...

it takes me a little bit to settle downand get to the point...

of where I am actuallyintentionally creating my day.

But here's the thing.When I create my day...

and out of nowherelittle things happen...

that are so unexplainable...

I know that they are the processor the result of my creation.

And the more I do that,



the more I build a neural net in my brain...

that I accept thatthat's possible...

it gives me the power and the incentiveto do it the next day.

[ Man Singing ]

[ Woman ] In addiction,

we have a supreme, beautiful opportunity...

to decipherthe difference between...

our intangibility ofour nobleness of character...

and the day-to-day businessofhow that character is revealed...

in a three-dimensional worldthrough our bodies.

[ Singing Continues ]

[ Shutter Clicks ]

- [ Shutter Clicks ]- [ Recessional ]

- I hate weddings.

- [ Woman ] And what we will learn...



is that addiction is...

the feeling ofa chemical rush...

that is cascadedthrough the bodies...

through a whole assortmentof glands and ductless glands...

and through the spinal fluid--

a feeling thatsome would call...

a sexual fantasy.

It only takes one sexual fantasyfor a man to have a hard-on.

In other words, it only takesone thought here...

for a man to havean erection in his member.

And yet, there was nothingoutside of him that gave him that.

It was what was within himthat gave him that.

- [ Ends ]- Oh. Oh.



[ Chuckles ] Hey, Amanda.I-I didn't know you were there.

Guilty.

A wedding?

Come on, Frank![ Mouths Words ]

This is a good assignment,if you'd see it that way.

What's to see?

""I do.'' They did.

Aw, God, Amanda. I mean,y-you live in your past...

and everything with youis about ""what happened.''

You hate churches. You hate weddings.You hate guys.

[ Sighs ]

Now I want you to goscope it out.

Don't need to.I got married there.



I know. I took the pictures,remember?

You got too many memoriesclouding your vision.

Oh, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda.

You know you're the besttechnical photographer I have.

And I wanna havesome great pictures.

You know what?You need a good Polish wedding.

- And watch out forthose good Catholic boys, huh?- You mean the priests?

- [ Laughs ] Come on. Get outta here.- Bye.

When I was younger, um...

I had lots of ideasabout what God was.

And now I realizeI'm not conscious enough...

to truly understandwhat that concept means.



That I am at one with the great beingthat made me and brought me here...

and that formed the galaxiesand the universes, et cetera--

how did that gettaken out of religion?

It was not hard.

Most of the problems that religionand various philosophical movements...

down through the centurieshave produced...

have been errors because

that's where they're started--

That God is a distinctseparate being from us...

to whom I must offer worship,whom I must cultivate...

humor, please and hope to attaina reward from at the very end of my life.

That is not what God is.

That is a blasphemy.

God is such a broad thing...



um, some parts of which--most of the parts of which...

that are associatedwith organized religion...

is something thatI sort of recoil at.

It's something I think has done a lot

ofharm to the world, done harm to women...

done harm to oppressed peoples,done harm to the World Trade Center.

And yet, and the same point...

we have the epitomeof a great science.

The closest sciencehas ever come...

to explaining Jesus'interpretation that...

the mustard seed was largerthan the kingdom ofheaven...

and the only science that can fit intothat analogy is quantum physics.

Now, we have--



we have great technology...

from antigravity magnets...

and magnetic fields--zero-point energy--

We have all that, and we still havethis ugly, superstitious...

backwater concept of God.

[ Man ] People fall into line very readilywhen they're threatened...

by these cosmic sentencesof everlasting punishment.

But this is not how God is.

And once you start to question thetraditional images, caricatures of God...

people feel you arean agnostic or an atheist...

or a subverterof the social order.

God must be greater than the greatestof human weaknesses...

and indeed...



the greatness of human skill.

That God must even transcendour most remarkable...

to emulate naturein its absolute splendor.

How can any man or woman sin againstsuch a greatness of mind?

How can any onelittle carbon unit...

on Earth in the backwaters of...

indeed, the Milky Way,the boondocks...

betray God Almighty?

That is impossible.

The height of arroganceis the height of control...

of those who create Godin their own image.

- [ Shutter Clicking ]- [ Man ] I now present to you...

- Mr. and Mrs. Richard ""Buck'' Filipowski.- [ Recessional ]



- [ Cheering ]- [ Shutter Clicking ]

[ Continues ]

[ Ends ]

[ Woman ]Brain, when it fires its thoughts...

is likened unto the landscapeof a thundercloud.

And the synaptic cleftis the sky between...

- the storm and the Earth--the Earth receptor sight.

- [ Electricity Crackling ]

And you see thisforeboding dark cloud...

boiling in the sky...

and you see electrical impulsesmoving through it...

veins of electric light...

and then you see ithit the ground.

- The brain looks like a thunderstorm--



- [ Electricity Crackling ]

when it is presentinga coherent thought.

- So no one is ever seeing the thought.- [ Thunderclap ]

What they do seein neurophysics...

is that they seea storm raging...

around different quadrantsof the brain.

- [ Thunder Rumbling ]- Those are areas that are mapped in the body...

and what a personmust be responding to--

a holographic image--

rage, murder, hate...

compassion, love.

[ Man ] The brain does not knowthe difference between...

what it sees in its environment

and what it remembers...



because the same specificneural nets are then firing.

The brain is made up of tiny

nerve cells called "neurons. '

These neurons have tinybranches that reach out...

and connect to other neuronsto form a neural net.

Each place where they connectis incubated into a thought or a memory.

Now, the brain builds up all its conceptsby the law of associative memory.

For example, ideas,

thoughts and feelings...

are all constructed and interconnectedin this neural net...

- and all have a possible relationshipwith one another.- [ Electricity Crackling ]

The concept and the feelingoflove, for instance...

is stored in thisvast neural net.

But we build the concept oflovefrom many other different ideas.



- Some people have loveconnected to disappointment.- [ Moaning ]

When they think about love,they experience the memory of pain...

sorrow, angerand even rage.

Rage may be linked to hurt,

which may be linked to a person...

which then isconnected back to love.

We build up models of howwe see the world outside of us.

And the more information that we have, themore we refine our model one way or another.

And what we ultimately dois tell ourselves a story...

about what the outside world is.

Any information that we process, any informationthat we take in from the environment...

is always colored by the experiencesthat we've had...

and an emotional response that we're havingto what we're bringing in.



Who is in the driver's seat when we controlour emotions or we respond to our emotions?

We know physiologically that nerve cellsthat fire together wire together.

If you practice something over and over,those nerve cells have a long-term relationship.

If you get angry on a daily basis,if you get frustrated on a daily basis...

if you sufferon a daily basis...

if you give reason forthe victimization in your life...

you're rewiring and reintegratingthat neural net on a daily basis...

and that neural net now hasa long-term relationship...

with all those other nerve cellscalled an ""identity.''

We also know that nerve cells that don'tfire together no longer wire together.

They lose theirlong-term relationship...

because every timewe interrupt...



the thought process that producesa chemical response in the body--

every time we interrupt it, those nervecells that are connected to each other...

start breakingthe long-term relationship.

When we start interruptingand observing...

not by stimulus and responseand that automatic reaction...

but by observingthe effects it takes...

then we are no longerthe body-mind conscious emotional person...

that's responding to its environmentas if it is automatic.

- [ Rock ]- [ Cheering, Applauding ]

[ Continues, Indistinct ]

[ Man ] Does that meanemotions are good or emotions are bad?

No, emotions are designed

so that it reinforces chemically...



something intolong-term memory.

That's why we have them.

All emotion isis holographically imprinted chemicals.

The most sophisticated pharmacyin the universe is in here.

[ Man ] There's a part of the braincalled the hypothalamus...

and the hypothalamusis like a little mini factory...

and it is a place thatassembles certain chemicals...

that matches certain emotionsthat we experience.

And those particular chemicalsare called "peptides. '

They're small-chainamino acid sequences.

The body's basicallya carbon unit...

that makes about differentamino acids altogether...



to formulate itsphysical structure.

The body isa protein-producing machine.

In the hypothalamus, we takesmall-chain proteins called peptides...

and we assemble them into certainneuropeptides or neurohormones...

that match the emotional statesthat we experience on a daily basis.

So there's chemicals for anger,and there's chemicals for sadness...

and there's chemicalsfor victimization.

There's chemicals for lust.There's a chemical that matches...

every emotional statethat we experience.

And the moment that we experience thatemotional state in our body or in our brain...

that hypothalamus will immediatelyassemble the peptide...

and then releases it through the pituitaryinto the bloodstream.



The moment it makes itinto the bloodstream...

it finds its way to different centersor different parts of the body.

Now, every single cellin the body...

- has these receptors on the outside.- [ Shutter Clicking ]

[ Woman ] Now one cell can havethousands of receptors...

studding its surface,kind of opening up to the outside world.

And when a peptidedocks on a cell...

it literally, uh,like a key going into a lock...

sits on the receptor surfaceand attaches to it...

and kind of movesthe receptor...

and kind oflike a doorbell buzzing,sends a signal into the cell.

- [ Buzzing ]- It's party time!



[ Rock ]


- [ Chattering ]- [ Shutter Clicks ]

[ Piano ]

[ Man ]What happens in adulthood...

is that most of us who've hadour glitches along the way...

are operating inan emotionally detached place...

or we're operatingas if today were yesterday.

- What is it?- Mixed.

[ Man ]In either the disconnected place...

or the overly emotionalreactive place...

because they've goneto an earlier time in reality...

the person is not operatingas an integrated whole.



[ Rock ]

[ Shutter Clicks ]

[ Shutter Clicks ]

- [ Continues ]- [ Shutter Clicking ]

Along the outsideof the cell...

are these billionsof receptor sites...

that are really just receiversof incoming information.

A receptor that has a peptidesitting in it, um...

changes the cell in many ways.

It sets off a whole cascadeofbiochemical events...

some of which wind up with changesin the actual nucleus of the cell.

- [ Shutter Clicks ]- Hi.

When I grow up, I want to becomea photographer just like you.



- Oh?- Got any tips?

- Take lots of pictures.- Thanks!

Each cell isdefinitely alive...

and, uh, each cell

has a consciousness...

particularly if we defineconsciousness...

as the point of viewof an observer.

There is alwaysthe perspective of the cell.

[ Male Cell Grumbles ]

[ Female Cell Murmurs ]

[ Male Cell # Indistinct ]

[ Woman ]In fact, the cell is...

the smallest unitof consciousness in the body.



I'm hungry!

- [ Disco ]- Oh. Yeah.

- [ Disco ]- Oh. Yeah.

[ Male Cell ] Oh,yeah.!

- We've commandeered an entire serving platter.

- [ Belching ]

[ Grunts ]

[ Exhales ]

- [ Dance ]

- [ Grunts ]

Yeah! Keep it coming.Keep it coming. Yeah.

- Delicious.- Oh, yeah. Oh.

[ Belches ]

Well, my definition of an addictionis something really simple:

something that you can't stop.

[ Continues ]



Don't make me suffer please.Oh, I hurt!

[ Gasping ]

[ Man ] We bring to ourselvessituations that will fulfill...

the biochemical cravingof the cells of our body...

by creating situations thatmeet our chemical needs.

It always happens to me.

- Every day!

- Why me?

And the addict will alwaysneed a little bit more...

in order to get a rush or a highof what they're looking for chemically.

Don't tell me to calm down!You're always bossing me around.

So my definition really means that if youcan't control your emotional state...

you must be addicted to it.



Oh, I knewthis was gonna happen.

That's not what we agreed upon.!You're not going to screw me--

[ Man ]Why don't you read the contract?

- You won't do anything, so I will.- No, no, ma'am.

Don't dip your half-eaten shrimpback into the cocktail sauce.

Screw you and your health codes!I am the bride's sister.

I'll stick my ass in the cocktail sauceif I damn well please.

What are you standing there for? Get out andserve. Make sure everybody has a full platter.

Fun, fun, fun.!Listen, Steven.

You won't do anythingabout it, so--

[ Girl's Voice ]I want to be a photographerjust like you.

[ Man Shouting, Indistinct ]

[ People Shouting, Murmuring ]



- [ Continues ]- [ Belches ]


[ Ends ]

So how can anyone really saythey're in love with a specific person...

for example?

They're only in lovewith the anticipation...

of the emotionsthey're addicted to.

Because the same person could fall outof favor the next week by not complying.

My goodness, doesn't thatchange the landscape...

of our emotional outlookon personal needs and identities?

[ Rock ]

- [ Moaning ]- [ Grunts ]

Oh, yeah.



Oh!

- [ Shutter Clicks ]- Amanda!

[ Continues ]

- [ Needle Scratches ]- How can you not fucking see?

No! No, no, no, no.

You got the--the punch line wrong.

It's a--It's a photographer's joke.

Go on about your, uh--

- Uh, music?- [ Rock ]

Are-- Are you okay?

Well, I--

I saw that groomfucking some girl!

Uh, when?



Just now!

I was with the, uh--the groom--

Hey, I can read lips!

Uh, I'm sorry. Uh, I waswith the groom just now.

Yeah, he loves Paulette.

- Where?- [ Mouthing Words ]

[ Woman Laughs ]

- [ Laughs ]- [ Man Clears Throat ]

Polacks-- They alllook the same in a tux.

You're not Polish,are-- Uh, hi.

- Thanks. Here.- [ Exhales ]

This-- This'll help.

- Oh, thank you.

- No problem. [ Clears Throat ]



That was in my mouth.Forget it.

[ Continues ]

[ Exhales ]

So, what's your name?

- Elliot. Hi.

- Yeah.

- It's a--- I'm Amanda.

Hey, Amanda. I should'veasked you what your name--

- You photograph a lot of weddings?- Yeah. I hate it.

I'm doing the thing againwith my hands. I'm sorry.

We are emotionsand emotions are us.

Again I can't separateemotions.

When you consider that, um...

every aspectof your digestion...



every sphincterthat opens and closes...

every group of cells thatcome in for nourishment...

and then moves out to, um...

heal somethingor repair something--

Those are all under the influenceof the molecules of emotion.

I mean,it's this total buzz.

[ Man ]

So you ask if emotions are bad.

Emotions are not bad.They're life.

They color the richness of our experience.It's our addiction that's the problem.

The thing that most peopledon't realize is that...

when they understandthat they are addicted to emotions--

- Another drink?

- [ Man ] it's notjust psychological.



It's biochemical.Think about this.

Heroin uses the same receptor mechanisms

on the cells...

that our emotionalchemicals use.

It's easy to see then thatif we can be addicted to heroin...

then we can be addictedto any neural peptide, any emotion.

- To the groom!- To the groom.

Whoo!

- What's up, guys?- What's up, man?

- Hello.- What do we need?

- Some foxes.- Who put out.

Yeah, baby!

Cheers.

So--



[ Woman ] The relevant search commandthat's going on...

is related to findinga certain emotional state.

I mean, we can't evendirect our eyes...

without havingan emotional aspect to it.

[ Cow Moos ]

[ Dog Barks ]

[ Cow Moos ]

Oh. Oh, gosh.

She wouldn't fall for me.

Oh, mama! Whoo!

What the hellare you waitin'for?

Come on, ya little pussies!Geez! I can't believe you guys!

What are you-- Ooh.! Come on. Come on.

Just get the hell out of the way.



[ Exhales ]Hi there, honey!

Come on, baby.

You know you want it.

Oh, don't give me that look.

Now...

what about peoplewho are addicted to sex?

[ Male Cell Muttering ]

Whoa!

- Whew.!- Hello there, big boy.

Is there a rocket in your pocket,or are you just happy to see me?

[ Giggling ]

[ Giggling Continues ]

[ Wolf Whistle ]

The lights are on

But you're not home



Your mind is not your own

- Yeow!

- Your heart sweats

Your body shakes

Your kiss is what it takes

You can't sleep, oh

You can't eat

There's no doubtyou're in deep

Your throat is tightYou can't breathe

Another kissis all you need

Whoa,you like to think

That you're immuneto the stuff

- Oh,yeah- [ Cells Muttering ]

It's closer to the truth

to say you can't get enough



You know you're gonna have to face itYou're addicted to love

You see the signs

but you can't read

You're running ata different speed

- Your heart beats in double time- Snap out of it! Over here!

Another kissand you'll be mine

A one-track mindYou can't be saved

Oblivion is all you crave

If there's some

- I want to hear some--- Hold on.

Would you not touch anything?That's very expensive equipment. All right?

Whoa,you like to think

That you're immuneto the stuff

Oh, yeah



- [ Belches ]- I want to hear some polka music, okay?

These people want to hear some polka music.You can't have a Polish wedding...

- without polka music.!- Might as well face itYou're addicted to love

Might as well face it

You're--

No! Would you leave it alone?Keep your-- [ Bleeps ]

How can you have a Polish weddingwithout any-- [ Bleeps ] Polish music?

- Get your-- [ Bleeps ] hands off my equipment!- [ Gasping ]

- [ Train Whistle Blows ]- Like I said before...

it ain't a Polish weddingwithout a polka!

[ Polka ]

[ Ends ]

[ Slow Rock ]



[ Crowd Chattering, Applauding ]

[ Woman ]Our mind literally creates our body.

So it all starts in the cell.The cell is a protein-producing machine...

but it gets its signalfrom the brain.

One of the things about receptors isthey change in their sensitivity.

If a given receptor for a given drugor internal juice...

is being bombarded for a long timeat a high intensity...

it will literally shrink up.

There will be less of them.

Or it will be hooked upin such a way...

that it is desensitizedor downregulated.

So the same amount of drugor internal juice...

will elicita much smaller response.



[ Thunderclap ]

[ Cells Whimpering ]

- [ Bombs Whistle ]- [ Whimpering Continues ]

[ Machine Gun Fire ]

[ Gun Fire Continues ]

[ Screams ]

If we're bombarding the cell withthe same attitude and the same chemistry...

over and over againon a daily basis...

when that cell finallydecides to divide...

when it produces a sister cellor a daughter cell...

that next cell will havemore receptor sites...

for those particularemotional neuropeptides...

and less receptor sites...



for vitamins, minerals,nutrients, fluid exchange...

or even the release

of waste products or toxins.

Now, all aging is the resultof improper protein production.

What happens when we age?

Our skin gets--loses elasticity.

Well, elastin is a protein.

What happens to our enzymes?We don't digest as well.

What happensto our synovial fluid?

Those are proteins thatbecome brittle and stiff.

What happens to our bones?They become thin.

So all aging is a resultof improper protein production.

So then the question arises...

does it really matterwhat we eat?



And does nutritionreally have an effect...

if the cell doesn't evenhave the receptor sites...

after yearsof emotional abuse...

to even receive,

or to let in...

the nutrients that arenecessary for its health?

[ No Audible Dialogue ]

Okay, guys. It's timefor a course correction...

on our trajectory, alongthe path of our adventure.

And that course correction isthe movement to a new paradigm...

just an expansion of the old--

just as the universe is larger thanwe thought it was in our modeling.

And it's always

larger than we think it is.



I hate you.

[ Sighs ]

I hate you.

[ Screams ]

You idiot!

You suck! Look at you!

You're fat! You're ugly!

You are worth nothing!You're getting old!

I hate you![ Panting ]

[ Water Dripping ]

It makes you wonder,doesn't it?

If thoughtscan do that to water...


[ Woman ]No one has ever came along...



and ever given you sufficient,intelligent knowledge...

about your beautiful self--

how you workfrom the inside out.

Why do you have addictions?Because you have nothing better.

You have dreamtof nothing better...

because no one has evertaught you how to dream better.

[ Laughing ]

[ Woman ] Do I think that you are bad?I don't think you're bad.

Do I think you're good?I don't think you're good either.

I think you're God.

[ Laughing Continues ]

In general, the fieldof psychiatry really doesn't...

allow for enough...



freedom of actionon people's part...

meaning an awful lot of problems--not all of them, to be sure...

but an awful lot of problems thatget labeled as psychological problems...

really amount to people

making rotten choices.

And they ought to be instructedto make different ones.

Can I--

Wow. [ Laughs ]

um, borrow some toothpaste?

Thanks.

[ Man ]When I talk about "we'disappearing...

I don't mean thatwe physically disappear.

What I mean is that we move outof the area of the brain...

that has to do with



our personality...

that has to do with our associationto people, our association to places...

our association to thingsand times and events.

We don't exist in the associative centersin our brain...

that reaffirms our identityand reaffirms our personality.

For the average personin the world who lives life...

and considers their lifeboring or uninspiring...

it's because they'vemade no attempt...

to gain knowledge and informationthat will inspire them.

They're so hypnotizedby their environment...

through the media,through television...

through people livingand creating ideals...

that everybody struggles



to become...

that no one can actuallybecome...

in terms of physicalappearance...

and definitionsof beauty and valor...

that are all illusions...

that most people surrenderand live their life in mediocracy.

And they may live that lifeand the soul may never really--

their desire may neverreally rise to the surface...

so they may want to besomething else.

But if it does riseto the surface...

and, uh, they ask themselvesif there is something more--

Or, why am I here?What is the purpose of life?

Where am I going?What happens when I die?



They start to askthose questions.

They start to flirt and interactwith the perception...

that they may be havinga nervous breakdown...

and in reality, what they're doing is

that their old concepts...

ofhow they viewed their life and the worldstart to fall apart.

We're in completely newterritory in our brain...

and because we're incompletely new territory...

we're rewiring the brain...

literally reconnectingto a new concept.

Then ultimately it changes usfrom the inside out.

If I change my mind,will I change my choices?

If I change my choices,will my life change?



Why can't I change?What am I addicted to?

What will I lose thatI'm chemically attached to...

and what person, place,thing, time or event...

that I'm chemically attached tothat I don't want to lose...

because I may have to experiencethe chemical withdrawal from that?

Hence the human drama.

[ Answering Machine Beeps ]

Amanda, it's Bob,and I'm just calling to say...

I hope thatyou can come tonight.

I really want to see you.I, uh, really want to talk to ya.

I know we can work things out.

[ Woman ]What's the only planet in the Milky Way...

that has habitation



that is steeped...

in enormous subjugationof religion?

You know why that is?

It's because peoplehave set up right and wrong.

[ Man ] If I do this,

I'm going to get punished by God.

If I do the other thing,I'm going to get rewarded.

This is a reallypoor description...

that tries to map out a path in lifefor us to follow...

but with deplorable results.

Because there really isno such thing as good or bad.

We're judging things fartoo superficially that way.

Does that mean you're in favor of sinand licentiousness and depravity? No.

It simply meansthat you need to improve...



your expression and understandingof what you're dealing with here.

There are things that I do,and I know they'll evolve me.

There are other thingsthat will not evolve me.

But it's not good or bad.There's no God waiting to punish you...

because you didone or the other.

[ Woman ]There is no God condemning people.

Everyone is gods.

At the same time,God is, um--

is this sort ofplaceholder name...

for those partsof our experience of the world...

which are somehow transcendent,somehow sublime.

I have no idea what God is.



Yet I have an experiencethat God is.

There is something very realabout this presence called God...

although I have no ideahow to define God...

to see God as a personor a thing.

I can't-- I can't seemto do it.

It's kind of like asking a human beingto explain what God is...

is similar to asking a fish to explainthe water in which the fish swims.

God is a superposition ofall the spirit from all things.

[ Woman ]You are a God in the making...

and you have to walk this path.

But someday,you haveto love the abstract...

as much as you lovethe condition of addiction.

The only way that I will



ever be great to myself...

is not what I do to my body...

but what I do to my mind.

[ Man ] So if we're consciouslydesigning our destiny...

and if we're consciously,from a spiritual standpoint...

throwing inwith the idea...

that our thoughts can affect our realityor affect our life...

'cause reality equals life...

then I have this little pact that I havewhen I create my day.

I say, ""I'm taking this timeto create my day...

""and I'm infectingthe quantum field.

""Now, if in fact the observer's watching methe whole time that I'm doing this...

""and there is a spiritual

aspect to myself...



""then show me a sign todaythat you paid attention...

"to any one of these things

that I created...

"and bring them in a waythat I won't expect...

"so I'm as surprised at my abilityto be able to experience these things...

and make it so that I have no doubtthat it's come from you.''

So the brain is capable of millionsof different things...

that people just

really should learn...

how incredible they actually are andhow incredible their minds actually are...

and that not only do they have thisunbelievable thing within their head...

that can do so many things for themand can help us learnand can actually change and adapt...

it can make us something betterthan what we actually are...

and it can actually help usto transcend ourselves--



There may be some waythat it can actually take us...

to a higher levelof our existence...

where we can actually understandthe world in a deeper way...

where we can understand our relationshipto things and people in a deeper way...

and we can ultimately make more meaningfor ourselves in our world.

We can show that there'sa spiritual part of our brain...

but it's a part that we all can have accessto and it's something that we can all do.

[ Man ]We have to formulate what we want...

and be so concentrated on itand so focused on it...

and have so muchof our awareness of it...

that we lose trackof ourselves.

We lose track of time.



We lose trackof our identity.

And the moment we become so involved

in that experience...

that we lose track of ourselves,we lose track of time...

that picture is the onlypicture that's real.

And everybody's hadthat experience...

when they've made up their mindthat they've wanted something.

That's quantum physics

in action.

That's manifesting reality.That's the observer in full effect.

[ Man ] Your consciousnessinfluences others around you.

It influencesmaterial properties.

It influences your future.

You are cocreatingyour future.



[ Man ] Show me a sign todaythat you paid attention...

to any one of these thingsthat I created...

and bring them in a waythat I won't expect...

so I'm as surprised at my abilityto be able to experience these things...

and make it so that I have no doubtthat it's come from you.

[ Man ]Do we really know each other?

[ Man # ]What is my life?

[ Man # ] Consciousness of religionis something fundamental.

[ Woman ]Have you ever seen yourself...

through the eyes of someone elsethat you have become?

What an initiation.

Have you ever stopped for a momentand looked at yourself...

through the eyes



of the ultimate observer?

[ Man ]I am much more than I think I am.

I can be much moreeven than that.

I can influencemy environment, the people.

I can influence space itself.

I can influence the future.

I am responsiblefor all those things.

I and the surroundare not separate.

They're part of one.

I'm connected to it all.

I'm not alone.

Knowing that there's thisinterconnectedness of the universe...

that we are all interconnected and thatwe are connected to the universe...

at its fundamental level...



I think is as good an explanationfor spirituality as there is.

It is my beliefthat our purpose here...

is to develop our giftsof intentionality...

and learn how to be

effective creators.

We are here to be creators.

We are hereto infiltrate space...

with ideasand mansions of thought.

We are here to make somethingof this life.

To acknowledgethe quantum self...

to acknowledge the placewhere we really have choice...

to acknowledge mind--

When that shift of perspective

takes place...



and if we can do that,we will manifest knowledge in reality...

and our bodieswill experience it...

in new ways, in new chemistry,in new holograms...

new elsewheres of thought...

beyond our wildest dreams.

All of us one day will reachthe level of the avatars...

that we have read about

in history--

the Buddhas and theJesus.

[ Woman ]Welcome to the kingdom ofheaven...

withoutjudgment,without hate...

without testing,without anything.

That we simply are has allowedthis reality we call real...



from the powerof intangibility...

to pull out of inertness,action-- chaos--

and hold it into its form...

and we call it matter.

[ Ship Horn Blowing ]

- [ Bell Rings ]- [ Bird Squawking ]

[ Man ]How can we measure the effects?

We get to live our life and see thenif somewhere in our lives...

something's changed.

[ Bird Continues Squawking ]

[ Man ]And then if it has changed...

we become the scientiststo our life...

which is the whole reasonwhy we're here.



[ Bell Rings ]

[ Horn Blowing ]

[ Man ]Don'tjust take it at face value.

Test it out and seewhether it's true.

- Hey, you're back.

- I'm back.

- So you never answered my question.- What question?

How far down the rabbit holedo you want to go?

Ponder that for a while.

My name's David Albert.Um...

I, uh, got a Ph.D.in theoretical physics.

I studied biochemistryat Rutgers University...

and then went to chiropracticcollege...

at Life University in Atlanta,Georgia.



My postgraduate training isin anatomy and physiology...

neurochemistry, neurophysiologyand genetics.

I study quantum physics.I sometimes teach it.

I have written a book on quantum physicsand many books...

explicating the meaningof quantum physics.

After my Ph.D. from Harvard,I went to CERN...

a European laboratoryfor particle research...

and then joined facultyat Stanford.

And my work there has been the developmentof unified quantum field theories.

I have about a hundred publicationsin this area, but perhaps I'm best known...

for the discoveryof supersymmetric flipped SU ...

grand unified field theory.



I make my livingas an anesthesiologist...

and every day as I put

my patients to sleep...

I kind of wonder where they go and whythey're there in the first place.

That's one of the reasonsthat attracted me...

to anesthesia andthe study of consciousness.

My name is Miceal Ledwith...

and for most of my lifeI was a professor of theology.

I'm Dr. Daniel Monti.I'm a physician...

with specialty training inpsychiatry and human behavior.

I'm on the full-time faculty attheJefferson Medical College.

I actually got very interestedin studying...

this whole topic of the brainand spirituality...



because it had to do with the questionsI was asking since I was a child...

about reality and how we understood truthand what was real.

As I grew upand as I realized that...

while spirituality was,in some senses...

a very important partof trying to find those answers...

science also wasa very crucial part.

I was ultimately lookingfor some way...

ofbringing thosetwo forces together.

Well, my name is Candace Pert...

and I'm a professor at Georgetownin the medical school.

Here we are actually filminggreat thinkers.

Everyone in this roomis a great thinker...

now that we got 'em thinking.



That's always a trick,isn't it?

I should make it clear thatI'm a graduate student in physics.

I'm not a full-fledgedtheoretical physicist yet.

Uh, but if fortune

smiles on me...

and I continue to work like a dog onmy problem sets and exams and whatnot...

eventually what I hopeto do with this is--

is to apply fundamentalquantum theory...

to quantum informationprocessing.

So I decided, well, if I gave upbeing department chairman...

and if I gave up all myprofessional committees...

and I gave up all my government committees,I would have a block of time...

that I could put to work.



Of course I gave upall my power positions...

but you haveto sacrifice something.

I had to keep my day jobbecause my family needed to be fed.

I presume that you're asking mehow a scientist can sound this wacko...

because I must be soundingwacko.

It's really an interesting question.If you study science long enough...

and seriously enoughand dig deeply enough...

if you don't come out feelingwacko about it...

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